I've been playing around with a "Hive" wallet on my iPhone for small change. They don't allow you to see the private key. Is there a way I can monitor, or add a watch-only wallet to my other Armory wallets using only the public keys from the Hive wallet?

This comes up regularly, to add a public key/adress to your Armory wallet.Currently it is not possible, because this would be an attack vector, where the user believes he received a payment, but in fact only sees a payment on an adress he doesn't control.The next suggestion was to clearly highlight those adresses, but as of now, nothing like that is possible.

I, for one, would like that feature as well. I would create a watching-only wallet with interesting external adresses.Oh, wait, the name "watch-only wallet" is already occupied for something similar, but completely different in Armory.. See the problems?

Thanks for the explanation. Using my public addresses, I also use bitWallet on my iPhone to monitor the Armory wallets on my hot and cold computers. I never loaded any private keys to bitWallet so I can't spend the coins from bitWallet (except for those in a small spending wallet).

I like bitWallet for mobile monitoring because you can set it up to alert you for transactions. I always thought this was safe since even if my phone or bitWallet were compromised, only the small spending account would be at risk.

Technically it's safe, as there are no privkeys on your phone.The attack vectors are, as so often, targeting the user. Tricking him to believe something was paid which wasn't (with somehow having the attackers watch-adresses added), or simply checking out the users watch-adresses-balance, and forcing him to give up the coins.This will eventually be a problem, I suppose. That attackers find out the balance of someone, and simply use force to overcome any smart technical obstacle.Oh, by the way, sadly, I own no bitcoins. At all.

I've been exploring and trying to set up my Windows-based online Armory (watch only) wallets in a Linux machine.

So far, Bitcoin Core was a breeze; setting up a different location for the blockchain database other than the default one is made easy as it is now an option during installation. I just copied the up-to-date Windows Bitcoin data over to the Linux location and didn't have to go through the complicated workaround outlined on the Armory support site (I did it for the my Windows Bitcoin Core and Armory installations). I was hoping that Armory would also have such option and allow me to just manually point it to the location of the Bitcoin data folder, wherever that might be. Unfortunately, it doesn't. With the ever-increasing size of the Armory database along with the Bitcoin core blockchain data and thereby hogging precious SSD space exclusively reserved for system/app files, I thought this would already be an option in Armory (it already is in Bitcoin Core).

I hope that such an option would be incorporated in the next release. In the meantime, can anybody please advice me on a workaround so that I'll be able to define a different location for the Armory database/wallet files in the Linux machine with the intention of using my current Windows Armory database/wallet files with it (parallel setup)?

I am not very well-versed in Linux let alone its file system/structure...and Bash (not yet anyway). But as is obvious, I'm really trying to learn it as my trust in Windows is slowly but surely eroding day by day. Therefore, it is best to assume (for my sake) that I am completely a Linux virgin.

Lastly, my offline Armory is, of course, Windows-based (hopefully will someday be Linux). I assume that I could still use it to sign transactions generated by a Linux-based Armory, right?

That's what I did in the Windows installations as outlined in the workaround on the Armory support page and they have been working flawlessly ever since. The following are my Windows shortcut parameters for both executables:

As I alluded earlier, I have no clue as to where I'd put the Armory shortcut parameter in the Linux system (I already got Bitcoin Core running with an alternative database location/directory as it was an option during the Linux Bitcoin Core installation).

Press i to begin editing (INSERT will appear at the bottom of the terminal window)

Add the "--datadir=" line to the executable command

Press i again

Type :wq then press return

You can check that the changes were written to the file properly by repeating step 2

But I already got Bitcoin Core running in the Linux machine with its ".bitcoin" data folder in a different drive/directory than the default one (defined through an option during installation which Armory doesn't afford).

I guess the crux of the matter of my inquiry is how do I tell Armory in the Linux machine to put/establish its ".armory" data folder in a different drive/directory than the default one as well. As a Linux noob, I haven't the foggiest. Is there a simple way for something that seems to be simple itself? Sorry for not being very clear about it initially.

I guess the crux of the matter of my inquiry is how do I tell Armory in the Linux machine to put/establish its ".armory" data folder in a different drive/directory than the default one as well. As a Linux noob, I haven't the foggiest. Is there a simple way for something that seems to be simple itself? Sorry for not being very clear about it initially.

Armory settings in the application. Two text boxes at the top of the layout, the lower one is where you specify Armory's folder.

I guess the crux of the matter of my inquiry is how do I tell Armory in the Linux machine to put/establish its ".armory" data folder in a different drive/directory than the default one as well. As a Linux noob, I haven't the foggiest. Is there a simple way for something that seems to be simple itself? Sorry for not being very clear about it initially.

Armory settings in the application. Two text boxes at the top of the layout, the lower one is where you specify Armory's folder.

Thanks for the tip. However, the text boxes are meant to define "Bitcoin Install Dir" (program) and "Bitcoin Home Dir" (data) which are handy in defining the respective non-default Bitcoin Core directories so that Armory is able to locate them and sync with Bitcore Core properly.

What I really need is to be able to establish or define the Linux Armory database folder (".armory") in a different drive with a lot more space instead of the default, limited-space system SSD. How do I go about doing that?

I guess the crux of the matter of my inquiry is how do I tell Armory in the Linux machine to put/establish its ".armory" data folder in a different drive/directory than the default one as well. As a Linux noob, I haven't the foggiest. Is there a simple way for something that seems to be simple itself? Sorry for not being very clear about it initially.

Armory settings in the application. Two text boxes at the top of the layout, the lower one is where you specify Armory's folder.

Thanks for the tip. However, the text boxes are meant to define "Bitcoin Install Dir" (program) and "Bitcoin Home Dir" (data) which are handy in defining the respective non-default Bitcoin Core directories so that Armory is able to locate them and sync with Bitcore Core properly.

What I really need is to be able to establish or define the Linux Armory database folder (".armory") in a different drive with a lot more space instead of the default, limited-space system SSD. How do I go about doing that?

Sorry, we're possibly both as inattentive as each other.

The same method I described a few posts back for the /usr/share/applications/bitcoin-qt.desktop file. Substitute bitcoin-qt.desktop with armory.desktop, add the line --datadir=<armory home folder on your system> to the Executable line in that file.

Don't try to use the file explorer to select the file and open it in a text editor, this typically won't work. You are forced to use the command line to make it work; don't worry it's goo for you (in the same way as eating your greens )

...but "i" seem to not do anything. "INSERT" did not appear at the bottom of the terminal window and when I attempted to press "i" a few more times and also other keys, it started to do some weird stuff to it (deleting characters, adding new lines, etc.). Not knowing what to do next, I just closed the terminal.

Each time I do "sudo vi /usr/share/applications/armory.desktop" again, I now get this:

(1) Another program may be editing the same file. If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two different instances of the same file when making changes. Quit, or continue with caution.(2) An edit session for this file crashed. If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r /usr/share/applications/armory.desktop" to recover the changes (see ":help recovery"). If you did this already, delete the swap file "/usr/share/applications/.armory.desktop.swp" to avoid this message."/usr/share/applications/armory.desktop" 10 lines, 232 charactersPress ENTER or type command to continue

I have no clue how to proceed from here.

Assuming that I get "i" (INSERT) to eventually work, which (Executable) line do I add the "--datadir=<alternate armory home folder path>" to?

visdude, you must have pressed a different key before trying to press i. vi is difficult like that.

Pressing Esc is your saviour. If pressing i does not work, press Esc once or twice, then try i.

The swap file stuff is a result of closing the terminal without quitting vi. To quit vi, press Esc once or twice first (to get it in the correct mode). Then type :q! and press Return. The text :q! will appear on the bottom line of your terminal console as you type it out (before you hit Return)

The line you need to append is:

Exec=/usr/bin/armory %u

Change it to:

Exec=/usr/bin/armory --datadir=<Armory home folder of choice> %u

You can specify the Bitcoin data folder by adding --satoshi-datadir= also.

Carlton Banks, do I press i at the swap file warning display where it says "Press ENTER or type command to continue" at bottom or should I hit Esc a couple of times first then i ?

To get rid of that warning, you need to restart your computer. There is a way of releasing it from swap using the command line, but I only did it once when I was learning to use vi. Just reboot for now.

Edit: the warning tells you what to do (as well as what's going on). If it doesn't disappear, allow me to quote from the warning: "If you did this already, delete the swap file "/usr/share/applications/.armory.desktop.swp" "